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@torchwood, sorry for the confusion. This thread is for a seperated Windows 7 computer. This is for a Dell Latitude D630. The mysterious folder thread is for a Windows 7 tower I have. Two different situations on two different Windows 7 machines.

@torchwood - I apologize for taking so long to reply. I got busy and forgot about this problem. I tried to clone my hard drive using EaseUS TODO Backup Home and it failed. I tired to installed kb947821 like you recommended. However, It said that it was not applicable to my system. Is it possible to use Linux to repair ,y disk so I can get an image of the drive?

Need Help Replacing corrupt autochk.exe and defragproxy.dll files

autochk.exe corruptHello
I started to investigate this issue because scandisk would no longer run at startup.
If during boot Repair Windows I run sfc at command prompt I get this message:
"there is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. restart windows and run sfc again."
The restart...

BSOD Help and Support

autochk.exe corrupt file in fsc /scannowMy laptop shuts down after 5 minutes with a blue screen in normal mode and can only run normally in safe mode. After some searching i tried fsc /scannow and got the errors underneath. I tried replacing the autchk.exe file with a good one but that didn't work, i think this is somewhere in registry?...

Performance & Maintenance

Difficulty replacing a corrupt autochk.exe fileSo my autochk.exe file is corrupt, this was a coincidental find whilst doing a sfc scan, I wasn't experiencing any problems whatsoever.
Now I have a good autochk.exe file, and my idea was to just plonk the good file in the place of the corrupted one.
My idea was to rename the corrupted file,...

General Discussion

Replacing missing or corrupt fileI have a desktop pc with Win 7 Home Edition 64bit OS. Recently when i started it all i saw was a black screen and it wouldnt boot up after that. I put my Win install disc into the CD drive and restarted the PC and received the message referred to in some other posts on this thread. It advised that...

BSOD Help and Support

Need to run chkdsk but autochk.exe not found-skipping autochk. but....Well apparently i have some missing files on my computer because Norton is telling me to run chkdsk. So i go to run it and tell it to start on boot up. When boot up comes up i get the message:
autochk not found - skipping autochk
so my chkdsk can run because autochk.exe isnt there, but this...